Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 3.3.83
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.83:
भावशक्तिमतश्वैनां मन्यन्ते नित्यवादिनः ।
भावमेव क्रमं प्राहुः न भावादपरः क्रमः ॥ ८३ ॥bhāvaśaktimataśvaināṃ manyante nityavādinaḥ |
bhāvameva kramaṃ prāhuḥ na bhāvādaparaḥ kramaḥ || 83 ||83. Those who believe in the Eternal (Brahman) look upon this as the power of the only Reality. They declare sequence to be the same as the objects and not as something apart from them.
Commentary
[In reality, the plurality which is visible is not the truth. Only monism is the truth. It is seen as plurality by those whose eyes are dimmed by nescience. The one sequenceless Brahman appears as many and as possessing sequence because of the power called svātantrya. These two powers, that by which the one appears as many and the sequenceless appears as having sequence are not really different from Brahman. Nothing besides Brahman can shine and that which shines cannot be different from Brahman. Sequence appears as conditioned by objects which are identical with Brahman. So sequence is really not different from what has sequence.]